Author Profiles
Ohio has a rich literary heritage as well as some wonderful contemporary authors. Learn more about them here! You can sort by various categories and see who has participated in our annual book festival by using the category search on the left, or search by keyword (including partial author names) by using the search field on the right.
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Brian Broome
Brian Broome’s debut memoir, Punch Me Up to the Gods, is an NYT Editor’s Pick and the winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. He is a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. His work has also appeared in Hippocampus, Poets and Writers, Medium, and more. Brian was a K. Leroy Irvis Fellow and an instructor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
He has been a finalist in The Moth storytelling competition and won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University’s Martin Luther King Writing
Awards. Brian also won a VANN Award from the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation for journalism in 2019. His film, Garbage, won the Audience Choice Award at the Cortada Short Film Festival and was a semi-finalist in the Portland Short Fest.
Brian is a 2022 Writer in Residence at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California. Visit his website at: https://www.brianbroome.com/
Lorena Brown
Patricia Wynn Brown
Patricia Wynn Brown is the author of Royal Roots: Reimagining a Life Through Humor, a Castle and the U.S. Navy (Biblio Publishing). Her humor memoir column appeared in newspapers for eight years, and for 15 years, she performed her comedy memoir show across the country. She’s an award-winning writer, national speaker, performer, dancer and former longtime emcee of the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, where she continues to help plan the event.
Echo Brown
Echo Brown is the award-winning author of Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard, which was named a William C. Morris Award Finalist, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a New York Public Library Best Book of the Year, a CCBC Choice Title, and a Rise: A Feminist Book Project Selection, among other honors. A performer and playwright, Echo created the acclaimed one-woman show Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters. She is a Dartmouth alumna and the first female college graduate in her family. Learn more at: https://www.echobrown.com/
Duffy Brown
Duffy Brown loves anything with a mystery. While others girls dreamed of dating Brad Pitt, Duffy longed to take Sherlock Holmes to the prom. She has two cats, Spooky and Dr. Watson, and conjures up who-done-it stories of her very own for Berkley Prime Crime. She has two series, the Consignment Shop Mysteries set in Savannah and the Cycle Path Mysteries set on Mackinac Island.
Dale Patrick Brown
Dale Patrick Brown is the author of Brilliance and Balderdash: Early Lectures at Cincinnati’s Mercantile Library. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Tiara J. Brown
Tiara J. Brown grew up in Northeast Ohio and studied media at Ohio University. Although The Tales of Alexandria Stecklar: The Locket is her first published novel, she has been held captive by the art of story-telling since she was twelve-years-old. When she is not writing or reading, you can be found swing dancing, hiking, or traveling.
H.M.S. Brown
H.M.S. Brown is an avid knitter, crocheter, and voracious reader who stumbled into writing during lockdown in 2020 after complaining to her mom about a book she didn’t like. When her mom challenged her to write her own, the small town of Grant’s Crossing, Ohio, was born. H.M.S. Brown is a graduate of both Indiana University and The Ohio State University, as well as a returned Peace Corps volunteer, so be prepared to see occasional mentions of the Hoosiers, the Buckeyes, and all things Bulgarian within her novels. She lives in central Ohio, doing the bidding of her evil, yet adorable cat, Michonne, but also keeps a day job to maintain a roof over her books and yarn stash. Wayward Guilt is H.M.S. Brown’s debut novel and Book 1 of her Heroes of Grant’s Crossing series. Watch for the follow-up to Wayward Guilt, Safe Now, to hit the shelves in early 2024.
Tonya Ulynn Brown
Tonya Ulynn Brown was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio but now calls southeastern Ohio home. She spent her younger years right out of college living in Europe and teaching English as a second language. She attributes her time in Eastern Europe as being one of great personal growth, where her love for history, the classics, and all things European was born. Tonya holds a Master’s degree in Teaching and is an elementary school teacher where she uses her love of history and reading to try to inspire younger generations. Along with all the historical characters that she entertains in her head, she lives with her husband, two sons and a very energetic French Bulldog.
Roger Brucker
Roger Brucker is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading cave explorers, having participated in and chronicled expeditions in Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky for seven decades. A cofounder of the Cave Research Foundation (CRF), he and other explorers were responsible for many discoveries during the second half of the 20th century that led to Mammoth Cave being recognized as the world’s longest cave, as described in Mr. Brucker’s books The Caves Beyond, The Longest Cave, and Beyond Mammoth Cave: A Tale of Obsession in the World’s Longest Cave. Mr. Brucker is also the coauthor of Trapped! The Story of Floyd Collins, which inspired the acclaimed stage musical Floyd Collins by Tina Landau and composer Adam Guettel. He is also the author of the historical novel Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar: Stephen Bishop at Mammoth Cave, which is based on the true story of a slave who explored and guided tours at Mammoth Cave during the early 1800s. Mr. Brucker has consulted for National Geographic Television and has interviewed on NPR and the CBS Evening News, among other media appearances He resides in Beavercreek, Ohio.